Audio from Win 7 guest VM decided to work, all of a sudden

[Ian Malone]

On 28 November 2013 16:11, Sam Varshavchik <mrsam at courier-mta.com> wrote:
> After just installing a new Windows 7 guest, I was surprised to hear some
> scratchy audio, from Windows, when it booted.
>
> I never had any luck getting any audio from guest VMs. I have a different,
> existing Windows 7 VM that's not producing any audio, on a different laptop.
>
> So now that, apparently, in F19 you can have audio passthrough from guest
> VMs, anyone knows what knobs need to be tweaked on an existing VM, to enable
> audio passthrough? Or, maybe it's hardware specific, and depends on audio
> hardware capabilities.
>

Not sure how you'd do it at the command line, but in the virtual
machine manager check you have a "Sound" entry in the machine devices
list (the 'i' tab). If not there, sound should be an entry in 'add
hardware'. The default seems to be ich6.

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